Cascade Birthday Card

Fashionable Stamping this weeks challenge is "anything flora". I have been wanting to make one of these cascade cards for awhile and I thought that this flora challenge would work well for this challenge.

I used the directions from Beccy’s Place Blog to make the base of the card then I added my embellishments. I used a combination of handmade flowers, flourishes, leaves butterflies. It is hard to believe that this card flattens for mailing.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great day.

Judy

Your Favorite Things

 

Shopping Your Stash Challenge 66: this week is to use your favorite things. This Christmas card uses some of my favorite digi image by Arty Pants, Distress inks and Metallic Rubs.

I printed my image on file folder paper and rubbed on layers last year’s Christmas Distress Ink colors of festive berries, iced spruce and evergreen boughs. I added some glitter pen to parts of the image to give it a more festive feel along with a gold card stock background and and a gold ribbon.

The Merry and Bright sentiment is from a free set of digi images by Kimm at Beary Scrap which I colored with metallic rubs. I have used these sentiments many times, they are nice to have in your stock of supplies. I used my sets of Alphabet stamps to add the Dec. 25th to the card.

Thanks for stopping by today and do something creative for yourself. Remember my favorite quote is by Maya Angelou. "You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
　

Judy

　

I would also like to enter this card in the following challenge:

The Creative Card Crew - Christmas

Make it Mondays - Anything Goes

Reindeer Challenge

Santa Claus’s reindeer are a team of flying reindeer traditionally held to pull the sleigh of Santa Claus and help him deliver Christmas Gifts. Since this week is my turn to chose the challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges  I thought reindeer was a great theme.

I had this great stamp in my collection for a very long time by Inkadinkado. I believe it is one of the first Christmas Stamps I ever bought. I embossed the image in a very non-traditional Christmas color of purple. I think the dark purple looks like a night sky. I kept the card simple and just added a couple of layers of paper and ribbon.
Now it is your turn to create your card. Need an idea, check out the creations of the other elves at Holly Jolly. Thanks for stopping by and have a creative day.

Judy

 
I would also like to entry this card in the following challenge

Dynamic Duos - DD#17 - Wisteria Wonder and Concord Crush.

It is a Flower Challenge

Crafty Sentiment Designs this week has a flower challenge. I created this card for the challenge using a cover of a tourist magazine I picked up this week on a camping holiday. I loved the autumn colors. I used my Cricut and cut out a window to frame the image. I then used an embossing folder and some white ink to give the window some texture. I stamped part of a PSX stamp of flying geese in the sky of my image and then added my autumn flowers to the window box and sentiment by Hero Arts to complete the card.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.

Judy

I would also like to enter this card in the following challenges.

Come and Get It - 3D flowers

Tammy’s Scrappin Corner - Anything Goes

Doing Life - Desire Fourie

3D Flowers at Come and Get It Challenges

This is my last week on the guest design team at Come and Get it Challenges. I cannot believe 6 months have gone by. I have enjoyed the challenge, meet some wonderful people and have learnt a lot about challenge blogs. Cindy, Leslie, Shell and Julie have very dedicated to making sure the Come and Get It is successful. I had not realized how many hours are put in to running a challenge blog . Thank you for inviting Meighan and I to join you.

The challenge this week is 3D flowers and I chose to make an easel card to showcase my flowers. I used Tim Holt’s Tattered Flower die cut to make the flowers and once I had them assembled I wet them with water and crinkled them to give them some shape.

The rubber stamp I used is by Kanban Rubber Stamps and after I had coloured the image I used a silver glitter pen to give her some sparkle. 

Come join us at Come and get it Challenges this week.  Thank you for stopping by and happy crafting.

Judy

I am also entering my card in the following challenges.

 

Divas by Design - Anything Goes (challenge #49)

Crafty Sentiments (flowers)

Tammy's Scrapin Corner (anything goes)

Pink Elephant Challenge (make your own embellishments)

Doing Life  

Fashionable Stamping Challenges - handmade flowers



Monochromatic Christmas Card

 
This week’s challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges is a monochromatic colour color challenge.   I had this beautiful unmounted star Christmas tree in my stash.  I stamped the tree with embossing ink and embossed it with an embossing powder called green pearl.  Like a lot of things in my stash I do not remember where the rubber stamp or the embossing powder came from or actually how long they have been in my stash.  I have never used either product before (better not tell my husband that).

 I had this pretty pale green embossed Christmas paper in my stash that I layered with a couple of similar papers to create the monochromatic card.  I then added a similar colour of ribbon and made a bow to complete then card.  I like the soft tones of this card.  I usually create in a lot bolder colors.  One of the neat things about doing challenges  is you find things in your stash that you have forgotten about or not used for a lot time  and you get to try things that may not necessarily be your style. 

Thanks for looking and now it's your turn to create! Just create your card and enter it here. Remember to stop by Holly Jolly and see all of the other cards that our Holly Jolly Elves have been making.

Judy

It's a Card Sketch Challenge

It is Shell’s turn to pick the Challenge at Come and Get it Challenges this week and who does like a card sketch.

This is my interpretation of Shell’s sketch.

I immediately thought of this digi sentiment I had in my collection from Pollycraft Digital Stamps. I used a punch for the larger stars and a die cut for the smaller ones and made them out of silver glitter paper. I used a metallic silver fine Prismacolor pen to create the dotted background. I think the silver dots make it resemble stars far away in the galaxy.  I used Martha Sewarts pewter metalic ink to color the milky section of the background. 

Inside the card I added another sentiment from Pollycraft "You’re a Star". I thought it went well with  the theme of the card.

Come join us at Come and Get It Challenges this week and thank you for stopping by to see my card this week.  　
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I would also like to enter this card in  Shopping Our Stash Challenge 65 :Sketch it! .

Judy

 

Card Sketch Time at Holly Jolly

Julie has a card sketch for us at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges this week and it is a very interesting sketch.

This challenge is sponsored by one of my favorites digital stamp company, Bugaboo Stamps and with Bugaboo as our sponsor this week have a prize for one lucky participant that will be chosen by Random Org. If you have never taken a look at their wonderful images I suggest that you you cruise over to their site and take a look, there is something for everybody and if you prefer rubber Bugaboo has that too.

 

Here is my interpretation of Julie's sketch.

Do you remember growing up that children’s mittens sometimes were attached by a string that you threaded through your coat sleeve so that you did not lose your mittens? The string holding the Christmas balls on the sketch reminded me of the string on the mittens. I found this "Warmest Wishes" sentiment at Bugaboo stamps that I thought went well with my idea. I used a die cut for the mittens and threaded a red and white string through them to give the effect I was looking for. 

This was a fun sketch and I hope you will join us at Holly Jolly this week. Pop over over to Holly Jolly and see what the other elves have created.

Judy

It is a Color Challenge - Orange, Brown Yellow and Red

This week's challenge at Come and Get it Challenges is a color challenge. The four colors are yellow, red, brown and orange. I just love the color combo.

This challenge is sponsored by one of my favorites digital stamp company, Bugaboo Stamps and with Bugaboo as our sponsor this week have a prize for one lucky participant that will be chosen by Random Org. If you have never taken a look at their  wonderful images I suggest that you you cruise over to their site and take a look, there is something for everybody and if you prefer rubber Bugaboo has that too.

The card I created this week is made with a digi stamp from Bugaboo called Bugaboo Cowboy - Fence 2. I colored the little cowboy with my Copic Markers, added layers of papers that I embossed with an embossing folder that gave a wood like appearance. To add some depth to the embossed papers I added distress ink. I then added some cord to resemble a lasso, some brads to resemble nails and a "howdy" stamp by Stampin Up to complete the card. I think he turned out kind of cute.

This was a fun challenge and I hope you will join us at Come and Get it Challenges this week. Create your card and enter it here.

Judy

Inspirational Photo Challenge

This week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges the challenge is to create a card using Meighan’s inspirational photo. This photo to me says "Merry Christmas".

Here is my card inspired by her photo.

When I saw the photo I thought of this Holiday Candle Arrangement stamp I had in my stash by Embossing Arts Co. To colour my image I used a glitter pen and several colours of Copic Markers. I used old paper Distress ink for the background colour. I then layer my pretty pattern papers, edged them with my gold Krylon pen and added a gold ribbon to complete .

This is a great Christmas Challenge this week hope you will join in the fun and get those Christmas card done early this year. Just create your card and entry it here.

 

Judy

Time for a Card Sketch

Tonight I have been working on a card sketch for a card swap I am participating in with the Yahoo group the Rubber Inkers.   I made this simple card with papers from one of those small 8 X 8 papers packs with coordinating papers.  I cut three different papers into my squares and chose three other papers to layer the squares over.  I added the three buttons to the card with ribbon tied through them and there I had my simple sketch card.  

Thank you for stopping by and have creative day.

 

Judy

Red and White Tulips

This card was made for a card swap that I participated in at Inky fun Stampers.  The theme of the swap was stripes.  I had these pretty napkins that I had been saving to make a card and layered it over a piece of gold stripe paper I had in my stash.  I love the red and gold combo.  

I added a sentiment and a butterfly and the card was complete.  Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. 

Judy

Birthday Card Challenge

This week’s challenge at Come and Get it Challenges is an “adult birthday card”.  

I made this simple card for the challenge.  The background behind the flowers is made with Tim Holtz Distress markers on water colour paper.  After I scribbled the markers on the water colour paper I sprayed the paper with a mist of water.  I love how the inks spread out.  Once the papers had dried I embossed my flowers with detailed black embossing powder.  I then layered my pretty pale yellow pattern paper with a new fancy die cut,  added a pale blue ribbon and sentiment to complete my card.

I hope you will join us this week at Come and Get it Challenges and have a creative week.

Judy

I would also like to enter the card in the following challenges:

Delightful Challenges - Birthday

Wags and Whiskers - Birthday